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In the News (Sun 15 Nov 09)

  
  Meleci Smatrycki
And yet after his trip to the East through southern Slavic lands and his conflict with Muscovites in the Patriarch residence at Constantinopol Smatrycki has narrowed his pursuing of unity to just Belarusians and Ukrainians.
In 1628 Smatrycki was forced to refuse his Unia beliefs and to sign the refusal by Ukrainian Cossacks on Kieu Church Congress.
In "Parenesis or a note to the brotherhood of St. Spirit Monastery" published in Old Belarusian and later in Polish in 1628 Smatrycki is criticizing orthodox Christian priests for their lack of education, anarchy, inability to follow the requirements of new times.
www.belarusguide.com /culture1/people/Smatrycki.html   (1219 words)

  
  AllRefer.com - Church Slavonic (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
Church Slavonic, language belonging to the South Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages).
The year 1100 is the conventional dividing line between the ancestor, Old Church Slavonic, and its descendant, the later Church Slavonic, which flourished as the literary language of a number of Slavic peoples before the 18th cent.
Scholars disagree as to which spoken Slavic dialect was chosen by the two saints as the basis for the language of their translations.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/ChurchSl.html   (498 words)

  
 Old Church Slavonic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Old Church Slavonic (also called Old Church Slavic, Old Bulgarian, Old Macedonian, and Old Slavonic) is the first literary Slavic language, developed from the Slavonic dialect of Thessaloniki (Solun) by the 9th century Byzantine missionaries, Saints Cyril and Methodius.
It played a great role in the history of Slavic languages and evolved into Church Slavonic, which is still used as a liturgical language by some Orthodox and Catholic Churches of the Slavic peoples.
Church Slavonic maintained a prestige status, particularly in Russia, for many centuries—among Slavs in the East it had a status analogous to that of the Latin language in western Europe, but had the advantage of being substantially less divergent from the vernacular tongues of average parishioners.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic_language   (1725 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Church Slavonic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
CHURCH SLAVONIC [Church Slavonic] language belonging to the South Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages).
Scholars disagree as to which spoken Slavic dialect was chosen by the two saints as the basis for the language of their translations.
History of an institution as a factor for predicting church institutional behavior: the cases of the Catholic Church in Poland, the Orthodox Church in Romania, and the Protestant churches in East Germany.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/c/churchs1l.asp   (632 words)

  
 Slavic Branch of the Indo-European Family
With the exception of Sorbian, all Slavic languages are national or official languages of the countries where they are predominantly spoken.
Slavic aspect is a very complex phenomenon that involves grammar, vocabulary, semantics, and pragmatics.
Old Church Slavonic (also called Old Slavic, Old Church Slavic or Old Bulgarian) is the first literary and liturgical Slavic language developed by the 9th century missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius.
www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/december/SlavicBranch.html   (973 words)

  
 Old Church Slavonic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The standard variety that developed in Russia, referred merely as Church Slavonic language, is still used today as the language of the Orthodox churches in Russia, Bulgaria and Serbia and sometimes in Bohemia.
Old Church Slavonic was written in two alphabets known as Glagolitic and Cyrillic (the invention of Glagolitic has been traditionally ascribed to St. Cyril).
Morphology of Old Church Slavic was highly inflective with a definite trend towards analytism.
www.orbilat.com /Encyclopaedia/O/Old_Church_Slavonic.html   (841 words)

  
 Sample Entry: Language / Encyclopedia of Linguistics
As with most Indo-European languages, the South Slavic group is characterized by many grammatical endings, with nouns and verbs changing form depending upon their position in the sentence, or their function as subjects or objects, singulars or plurals.
For the period between the 10th and 12th centuries, the textual evidence of the Proto-Macedonian and Bulgarian is important for the earliest body of attestations of Slavic in general, known as the canonical period of Old Church Slavic.
The South Slavic languages represent a picture of great diversity among the Slavic languages, and, as they are located at a crossroads of European languages and cultures, have been affected by contacts with numerous languages.
www.strazny.com /encyclopedia/sample-language.html   (1627 words)

  
 Slavic Pentecostal Church - Pluralism Profile #27
The Slavic church has other small centers in Rochester, along with churches along the East and West coast of the United States with which they communicate.
Music of all kinds is permitted within the church except for “rock.” Pastor Kasap referred to rock as “the devils music.” The church does not have an organ, however they have many different choirs.
The church publishes a magazine in conjunction with the other churches a few times a year, as well as a weekly newsletter.
www.monroecc.edu /depts/sociology/pluralism/profile27.htm   (1035 words)

  
 Church Slavonic language
Old Church Slavonic was the first Slavic literary language and was written in two alphabets known as Glagolitic and Cyrillic (the invention of Glagolitic has been ascribed to St. Cyril).
Old Church Slavonic was readily adopted in other Slavic regions, where, with local modifications, it remained the religious and literary language of Orthodox Slavs throughout the Middle Ages.
It continued to be written by the Serbs and Bulgarians until the 19th century and had significant influence on the modern Slavic languages, especially on the Russian literary language that grew out of a compromise style incorporating many Church Slavonic elements into the native Russian vernacular.
www.rkp-montreal.org /en/05churchslavoniclanguage.html   (184 words)

  
 Resources for Old Church Slavic
Since OCS is classified as a South Slavic language, the section devoted to South Slavic Linguistics, which appears in the General Resources for Slavic Linguistics page, may also be of interest for this category.
Russian and Church Slavic books, most of a religious nature, published in the 16th and 17th centuries in Moscow are the subject of this bibliography and microfilm set.
It also is concerned with old Slavic culture, with specific OCS manuscripts, with the political and historical situation of that time, and other such themes.
www.library.uiuc.edu /spx/class/SubjectResources/SubSourGen/lingocs.htm   (2973 words)

  
 Indiana University Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Indiana University was first organized in 1947 as the Department of Slavic Studies under the leadership of Michael Ginsburg, the university's first professor of Russian.
The department's Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European, and Central Asian Languages (SWSEEL) remains the largest such program in the United States, offering students the opportunity to complete a full year of college language instruction during a single eight-week summer session for reduced tuition rates.
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is located in Ballantine Hall, near the center of the IU-Bloomington campus.
www.indiana.edu /~iuslavic   (340 words)

  
 Old Church Slavonic Online: Series Introduction
Likewise, South Slavic retains the nasal Ä™ in the accusative plural of ja-stem nouns, whereas in East and West Slavic the nasality is lost.
Hence it is assumed that the beech tree cannot be native to the original Slavic-speaking area, and because the easternmost extent of the red beech is along a line extending from modern Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) to the mouth of the Danube, the Slavs could not have lived west of this line.
Hence the terminology Church Slavonic or Church Slavic, and for the oldest documents of this, Old Church Slavonic or Old Church Slavic.
www.utexas.edu /cola/centers/lrc/eieol/ocsol-0-X.html   (1716 words)

  
 Help Me Learn Church Slavonic
My goals in learning Church Slavonic are to be able to read and pray with understanding texts written in Church Slavonic, to be able to serve and sing competently on the kliros, and to be able to translate Church Slavonic texts into English.
Although Church Slavonic is sometimes called "Old Church Slavonic," "Old Slavonic," or "Old Church Slavic," it has been revised several times throughout its history, most recently in the 18th century under the Empress Elizabeth.
The term "Old Church Slavonic" properly belongs to the form of the language that was used in the 9th-12th centuries and not to the modern form of Church Slavonic that is currently used in the Russian Orthodox Church.
justin.zamora.com /slavonic   (340 words)

  
 C-Slav241B   (Site not responding. Last check: )
We will attempt to determine the filiation of the texts, and the relation of their stemmatological taxonomy to that which is found in the Orthodox Slavonic recensions.
Not surprisingly, scholarly discussion of Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian Church Slavonic manuscripts and the texts contained within them is not at all rare in the published literature and conference presentations.
Without reference to evidence derived from CCS, inferences concerning the historical events, the original form or norms of the language, and concerning the original translations and their later development, must be based on extrapolation backward along what is essentially a single line of development.
www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/slavic/html/c-slav241b.html   (1454 words)

  
 Old Slavic and Church Slavonic Languages
This is a photo reprint of the eleventh volume of the Encyclopedia of Slavic Philology including Essays About the Earliest Period in the History of Russian Language by the notable Russian historian and philologist Aleksei Shakmatov (1864-1920).
This is the first comprehensive monograph on the history of Slavic studies in Russia in the 19th century with further division by period, centers of these studies, and the leading scholars in this field.
The history of the Church Slavonic language, the language of the liturgy, in the twentieth century, is closely tied to the dramatic and controversial history of the Russian Orthodox Church.
www.panrus.com /books/category.php?langID=1&catID=38   (1612 words)

  
 History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073. (i.ii.xxix)
A national Slavic church rapidly arose; the German priests with the Latin liturgy left the country.
The German clergy considered the use of the Slavic language in the mass an unwarranted innovation, and the Greek doctrine of the single procession of the Holy Spirit, still adhered to by Methodius and the Slavic church, they considered as a heresy.
The Slavic priests were expelled and the Slavic liturgy abolished, German priests and the Latin liturgy taking their place.
www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc4.i.ii.xxix.html   (1630 words)

  
 Our Slavic Language - Byzantine Forum
The invention of the Slavic letters and introduction of the Slavonic language into worship could be considered a genial work, a real miracle, since it surpassed all the literary attempts made in the Middle Ages.
The spiritual life of our Church is directly related to the relationship the Chuch has had with God since the beginnings of the Church in Slavic lands.
But for Slavic Churches in particular, it MAY be the case that people may want to keep a vestige of the Church Slavonic.
www.byzcath.org /bboard/Forum2/HTML/000714.html   (5722 words)

  
 Christian News Northwest: News Article Archive: Feature Articles
SALEM - Members of the First Slavic Christian Church of Salem, a part of the new wave of Russian-speaking immigrants to America since 1990, dedicated their $1 million church building on Sunday, Oct. 31, the eve of All Saints Day.
The pastor believes the future is bright for the congregation as it seeks to proclaim the gospel and to equip the saints among Russian immigrants.
The church is located on a 2.4-acre site at 4913 Auburn Road N.E., not far from the State Capitol building, and is affiliated with the Slavic Churches of America (SCA), a fellowship that includes Slavic Pentecostals, Baptists and Evangelicals.
www.cnnw.com /articles/articles/articles12-2.html   (492 words)

  
 SLAVIC
Designed to acquaint majors in Slavic linguistics with the details of the historical development of the phonological and morphological structure of the Ukrainian and Byelorussian literary languages.
Designed to acquaint majors in Slavic linguistics with the details of the historical development of the phonological and morphological structure of literary Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Upper and Lower Sorbian languages.
Designed to acquaint majors in Slavic linguistics with the details of the historical development of the phonological and morphological structure of the South Slavic languages.
www.washington.edu /students/crscat/slavic.html   (925 words)

  
 Church Slavonic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Church Slavonic, language belonging to the South Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see
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History of an institution as a factor for predicting church institutional behavior: the cases of the Catholic Church in Poland, the......
www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0812207.html   (564 words)

  
 HalGal: Church Slavic Days, Months, and Years
To the left is the Old Church Slavic alphabet with numeric equivalencies.
This is an example of a page that a Greek Catholic priest wrote in Church Slavic with the columnar format that was incorporated by Austrian law when the region was taken over by the Austrian Empire.
The priest from the parish often substituted Ukrainian spellings for Church Slavic.
www.halgal.com /churchslavicdmy.html   (791 words)

  
 Old Church Slavic CALL Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Old Church Slavic (aka Old Church Slavonic or Old Bulgarian) is a language that was spoken in the Balkan peninsula in the 6th and 7th century AD.
It was primarily used for literature, and church liturgy, verses and prayers (hence the name).
Church Slavonic Resources: A site completely dedicated to the Church Slavonic language, with books, e-texts, organizations, and software.
polyglot.lss.wisc.edu /lss/staff/erica/CALL/oldchurch.html   (162 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Old Church Slavonic Grammar: Books: Horace G. Lunt   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This description of the structure of Old Church Slavonic is intended to present fully the important data about the language, without citing all the minutiae of attested variant spellings.
Old Church Slavonic is the name given to the language of the oldest Slavic manuscripts, which date from the tenth or eleventh century.
Old Church Slavonic is my favourite archaic language in the IE family, and I encourage its study, but pick up one of the better grammars.
www.amazon.com /Church-Slavonic-Grammar-Horace-Lunt/dp/3110162849   (1618 words)

  
 Basic Terminology - The Sla- & Slo- Words
the Slavic language used in the liturgical and Biblical translations of Cyril and Methodius as attested in manuscripts of the 10th and 11th centuries, also called Old Church Slavic.
the oldest attested Slavic language, an ecclesiastical language written first by Cyril and Methodius in a Bible translation of the 9th century and continued in use for about two centuries.
a liturgical language used in Eastern Orthodox churches in Slavic countries since the 11th or 12th century, representing a development of Old Church Slavonic through contact with the national Slavic languages.
www.slavism.com /basic.htm   (451 words)

  
 The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Misc. Balto-Slavic
updated 1-8-2003 Bulgarian (Indo-Hittite) belongs to the South Slavic sub-branch of the Slavic sub-branch of the Balto-Slavic sub-branch of the Indo-European branch of the Indo- Hittite family of languages.
Old Church Slavic is the language into which two Christian missionaries, Cyril and Methodius, translated the Bible.
Old Church Slavic remains the official language of the Russian Orthodox Church.
www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/obalslvh.htm   (2315 words)

  
 Langbridge.com - Church Slavic Translation Services; English to Church Slavic Translators
Need a text translated from English into Church Slavic or vice versa?
Langbridge, Inc has been providing America with superb quality, fast turnaround Church Slavic translations since 1998.
So be it Church Slavic business translation, or personal Church Slavic translation - Langbridge, Inc. is your solution.
www.langbridge.com /translation_services/church_slavic_translation.htm   (127 words)

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